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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    The SRX beats any two of the Germans combined in sales.... what do you mean it doesn't compete? And what X3 or GLK isn't driven by a Suburban soccer mom? It is marketed directly AT soccer moms! The Malibu is an abnormality, I wouldn't use that as an example for anything... though I believe in my review of the Malibu, I chastised its interior room for being close to the Jetta with the Jetta actually feeling roomier. The problem there is that the Jetta and Malibu compete at vastly different starting prices. The SRX, and the Germans are very very close in price and interior room... so much so that the fact the exterior of the SRX is larger doesn't matter too much.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    SMK, this might be news to you, but the size of the car is not determined by the exterior, but by the size of the interior. The X3, GLK, and SRX are all in the same size class regardless of exterior dimensions.... and only in the full size class of SUVs does exterior size even begin to matter. No one..no one... shopping in this interior size/price class is going around with a measuring tape to measure the exterior of the car. Why can't you get this?
  3. Drew Dowdell
    The RX350 is where the sales are, so it's right that Cadillac would chase that rather than the X5. Besides, on interior room the SRX is more like an X3... so Cadillac is getting people to pay RX350 prices for something that is X3 sized inside and is selling a bunch of them too... more than BMW has been selling X3s or MB selling GLKs. Now, if your argument is that Cadillac needs an X5 sized and priced crossover, I'll agree with you there.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    They're offering 0% financing for 72 months right now around here.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    The product is (mostly) no longer the problem. The distribution channel is.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    Probably because at the time they had a lot of V8s, and they probably sold more V12s in the 90s when gas was cheaper, so having all the engines in V formation was easier. But now that gas is $8-9 a gallon in Europe and they have CAFE and Euro emissions requirements and smaller engines can make more power, they are in downsize mode. Times change, Cadillac put a V8 in everything they made back in 1995, now 2 of their cars have 4-cylinders and the only V8 is the Escalade and CTS-V. By Jove! A reasonable comment from SMK!
  7. Drew Dowdell
    They made a mistake on the Malibu... pretty much everyone agrees on that... but they'll have to let that mistake run its course until a replacement comes. That doesn't mean throwing more engineers at it that would otherwise be working on the products Mark is talking about here.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    What Volts caught fire? The only one I know of is the one that went through crash testing and then was left on its roof for 3 days, unattended, and the battery juice ran out of a cracked battery....
  9. Drew Dowdell
    well I was close
  10. Drew Dowdell
    That's probably it. Since Benz is moving to FWD and Inline-4-cylinder with turbocharging, it's probably cheaper for them to add two more cylinders to the block, turbo-charge it, and throw it in an S-Class than it would be for them to build a whole different family V6
  11. Drew Dowdell
    ah, I understand you now. No, I think you're right that this will be "marketed" as just a WRX and not as an Impreza WRX... even though that's what it is.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    Full-size-model
  13. Drew Dowdell
    Next thing they'll do is move back to that old-tech DOHC valvetrain too! You know.. the design that is actually older than pushrod-OHV.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    Interesting that they are making it modular. Isn't how the GM Atlas engines were? I-6, I-5, I-4?
  15. Drew Dowdell
    It's the performance version of the Impreza
  16. Drew Dowdell
    You get the idea... That is a shelf from a wall mount wire rack set that you might have in a kitchen pantry.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    I thought "Safari" was Pontiac's way of saying "Wagon"... much like Oldsmobile used "Cruiser"
  18. Drew Dowdell
    I do think Buick needs a flagship, but I don't think it should be a sedan.
  19. Drew Dowdell
    Having the savings to buy the house is important too... He can get the truck again later.
  20. Drew Dowdell
    At worst the Tesla might need an additional shield on the battery pack. But I still maintain that both accidents have been rather freakish. In the first one a metal spike had practically impaled the battery pack. I know where the tank is on my cars and if that happened, there would be a substantial risk of fire.
  21. Drew Dowdell
    Why is it different?
  22. Drew Dowdell
    Very nice! Should save you a bunch of money. Welcome back!
  23. Drew Dowdell
    Ford Taurus/merkur scorpio (constellations) Mitsubishi Eclipse? Mitsubishi Starion Chevy Nova Subaru is actually a Japanese word for a constellation as well... I don't know which one... but that's why it has the stars in its logo. Isuzu D-Max Quasar Isuzu Gemini
  24. Drew Dowdell
    NorthStar GuideStar And... owned by Navistar, the International brand of trucks features a model lineup where all but one model has the suffix "star". ProStar, DurraStar, TerraStar, PayStar, WorkStar, TransStar...... and the only one I'll post a pic of... the International LoneStar
  25. Drew Dowdell
    Would OnStar count?
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